In 2022, Howells said if he can’t go into the dump, he’ll send Boston Dynamics robotic dogs to do the digging for him. That ...

Global scandal erupts as used Seagate hard drives from crypto mining operations discovered being sold as new, with over 200 ...

And right now, you can get a gargantuan 28TB hard drive — yes, twenty-eight terabytes — on eBay for $389.99.

I had a conversation with a coworker this week about an interesting situation with her elderly father’s old computer. His ...

Howells sued the city of Newport, Wales, in October 2024 for the right to search the landfill or pay him £495 million ($607 ...

A British engineer who lost a hard drive with an estimated $750 million worth of Bitcoin on it isn't letting up in his ...

A computer engineer who believes his Bitcoin hard drive worth nearly £600m is buried in a landfill is now considering buying ...

A man who claims his $700 million Bitcoin fortune was dumped at a landfill is trying to buy the land back in hopes of ...

Bitcoin miner James Howells, who lost a hard drive containing $750 million in Bitcoin, is now considering the Newport ...

A computer engineer who lost £620m-worth of Bitcoin wants to buy the tip where he believes it was buried. James Howells, from ...

Over 200 reports of affected HDDs have surfaced worldwide, including cases in Europe, Australia, Thailand, and Japan. The ...

The only case with hard drives where the USB standard matters much is if you connect a drive to an old-style, low-bandwidth USB 2.0 port, which is better reserved for items like keyboards and mice.